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v. & n. See Swoon, v. & n. [ Prov. Eng. or Archaic ] Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The landlord stirred
As one awaking from a swound. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Cf. Zounds. ] An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. [ Obs. or Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Ordnance) A gun in the construction of which an inner tube (either entire or in segments) is wound with wire under tension to insure greater soundness and uniformity of resistance. In modern construction hoops and jackets are shrunk on over the wire. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde, OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel. und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG. wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to suffer, E. win. √140. Cf. Zounds. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Showers of blood
Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a “capricious novelty.” It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wound gall (Zool.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wounding. ] [ AS. wundian. √140. See Wound, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 1 Sam. xxxi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to. [ 1913 Webster ]

When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1 Cor. viii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, wounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. “Knights whose woundless armor rusts.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Slander ] may miss our name,
And hit the woundless air. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]